Sophia University Faculty of Economics

Sophia University Faculty of Economics

Reseach Seminar

Past Seminar Details

Seminars hosted by Sophia University’s Faculty of Economics are academic seminars that welcome all researchers, graduate students, and undergrad students from both within and outside the university who have an interest in the topic. Please note in advance that all materials will be distributed on the day of the seminar and will be limited in number.

2022

Date Venue Speaker Title
May 20
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Masashi Toshino
(Seikei University)
IPO前後の価格形成 (Available only in Japanese)
July 22
12:45-14:15
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Tomohiro Hirano
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Land Speculation, Booms, and Busts with Endogenous Phase Transitions: A Model of Economic Fluctuations with Rational Exuberance

2021

Date Venue Speaker Title
May 28
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Niklas Uliczka
(Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University)
The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Top Income Shares
June 4
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Masashige Hamano
(School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
Multi-Product Establishments and Product Dynamics (jointly with Keita Oikawa)
June 18
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Kai Nomura
(Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University)
Empirical study on the effects of climate change on pest damage, rice yield and quality
June 25
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Shuhei Kainuma
(Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)
Transition to Broader-Based Politics: The Role of Suffrage Extension in Early 20th Century Japan
July 8
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Yuma Noritomo
(Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)
Constrained Data and External Validity: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
July 9
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Yi-Chun Ko
(Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University)
Capacity to Adapt to Temperature Effects on Crop Yields Evidence from Rice Production in Japan
August 13
16:30-18:00
ZOOM Koki Kanazawa
(Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)
The Hidden Impact of International Financial Aid on Child Labor in African Countries (jointly with Jun Goto)
October 22
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Ngawang Dendup
(Waseda University)
Returns to Grid Electricity on Firewood and Kerosene: Mechanism
October 29
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Youngkyu Song
(Seikei University)
Ryouteki kanwa to bukka no zyousyou keikou ni kan suru zissyou (in Japanese)
November 12
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Mirka Zvedelikova
(Keio University)
Preference for Young Workers in Mid-career Recruiting in Japan: Evidence from Online Job Ads for Sales Jobs
November 19
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Duc Dung Le
(Keio University)
The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Child Mortality: Evidence from the Education Reform in Vietnam
November 26
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Ken Yahagi
(Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo)
Law enforcement with liability statutes for legal error
March 4
16:15-17:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Yoko Ibuka
(Keio University)
The impact of community mobility on suicide under the COVID-19 pandemic (jointly with Haruo Kakehi, Ryuki Kobayashi, and Ryo Nakajima)
March 23
12:00-17:10
4th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Room 410
& ZOOM (HyFlex)
Kongphop Wongkaew (Waseda University)

Matthias Schlegl (Sophia University)

Gabriel Fuentes Cordoba (Sophia University)

Niklas Uliczka (Tohoku University)

Sayaka Nakamura (Nagoya University)

Kenzo Ichikawa (Sophia University)

Hidefumi Yokoo (Hitotsubashi University)
Misperception about COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Implications and Associated Factors


The Seniority Structure of Sovereign Debt




The Recognition of Community Forestry and Household Economic Situations in Cambodia



The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Top Income Shares in Louisiana: A Synthetic Control Analysis

Wholesome Lunch to the Whole Classroom: Short- and Longer-Term Effects on Early Teenagers’ Weight


A Characterization of Reference-set Welfarism



Ethics of Randomized Field Experiments: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment


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2020


Date Venue Speaker Title
April 24
14:10-15:10
ZOOM Susumu Cato
(The University of Tokyo)
Critical-level sufficientarianism (jointly with Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga)
April 24
15:10-16:10
ZOOM Kohei Kamaga
(Sophia University)
Thresholds of sufficiency and critical levels (jointly with Walter Bossert and Susumu Cato)
May 1
14:00-15:10
ZOOM Takuya Hasebe
(Sophia University)
The effect of violence on health: The experience of East Timorese children (jointly with Gabriel Fuentes-Cordoba and Mingchao Sun)
June 19
17:00-18:30
ZOOM Kohei Kamaga
(Sophia University)
Treating future people impartially implies avoiding future lives with low well-being (jointly with Geir B. Asheim and Stéphane Zuber)
November 12
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Takuya Hasebe
(Sophia University)
White Collar Exemption and the Effect of Flexible Work Arrangement (jointly with Yoshifumi Konishi and Shunsuke Managi)
November 13
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Aoki Ken
(Sophia University)
Informational Externalities Arising from Quality Uncertainty: An Application to CHW Service Market (jointly with Takuya Hasebe)
December 4
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Yuji Mizushima
(Waseda University)
Spillover effects of minimum wages on suicide mortality: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japan
January 15
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Markus Heckel
(German Institute for Japanese Studies)
Unconventional Monetary Policy through Open Market Operations: A Principal Component Analysis
January 22
17:15-18:45
ZOOM Gabriel Fuentes-Cordoba
(Sophia University)
Violence and trust: Evidence from the 1999 East Timorese crisis (jointly with Takuya Hasebe and Mingchao Sun)
March 5
16:30-18:00
ZOOM Sho Kuroda
(University of Tsukuba)
Climate Mitigation and Spatial Distribution of Automobile Demand: The Role of Income, Public Transit, and Portfolio Considerations (jointly with Yoshifumi Konishi and Shunsuke Managi)
March 24
13:00-17:15
ZOOM Yuma Noritomo (The University of Tokyo)

Kohei Kamaga (Sophia University)

Guanyu Lu (Waseda University)



Azusa Okagawa (National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Markus Heckel (German Institute for Japanese Studies)

Matthias Schlegl (Sophia University)


Masashige Hamano (Waseda University)
Research Site Selection Bias: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon


Generalized Poverty-gap Orderings (jointly with Walter Bossert and Susumu Cato)


Success and Failure of Voluntary Action Plan: Disaggregated Sector Decomposition Analysis of Energy-related CO2 Emission in Japan (jointly with Makoto Sugino, Tetsuya Horie, and Toshi H Arimura)

Characteristics of Farm-households Adopting Environmentally-friendly Farming Practices in Japanese Agriculture (jointly with Tetsuya Horie)



The Unconventional Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (jointly with Kiyohiko G. Nishimura)



Structural Unemployment, Underemployment, and Secular Stagnation (jointly with Ken-ichi Hashimoto and Yoshiyasu Ono)


Multi-Product Plants, Product Switching and Macroeconomic Dynamics (jointly with Keita Oikawa)


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2019

Date Venue Speaker Title
May 10
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tomohiro Hirano
(The University of Tokyo)
The Wobbly Economy
May 22
17:15-18:45
3rd Floor, Bldg.No.6
Room 305
Paul Glewwe
(University of Minnesota)
What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the Young Lives Data from Ethiopia, Peru, India and Vietnam
June 6
15:30-17:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Katsunobu Sasanuma
(Stony Brook University, The State University of New York)
Marginal External Cost Approach to Perishable Inventory Model
June 6
17:30-19:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kodama Koichiro
(Meisei University)
Gyoukai kakusin no dainamizumu—dezitaru ka to syasin bizinesu no henkaku (in Japanese)
June 28
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Taiyo Fukai
(The University of Tokyo)
Introduction of parental leave policies and maternal employment in long-run
July 4
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Christian Hirt
(University of Graz)
The concept of responsibility in Europe and Japan – an analysis of cultural difference
July 12
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tamon Takamura
(Bank of Canada)
Monetary Policy Transmission through SME loans: Analysis of Loan-Level Data from the Business Development Bank of Canada
July 19
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Suleyman Taspinar
(Queens College, City University of New York)
Bayesian Inference for Spatial Stochastic Volatility Models
July 22
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yoshio Nozawa
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
The Global Credit Spread Puzzle
July 26
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ryo Makioka
(The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, RIETI)
Do Trade Fairs Promote Export?
October 1
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yaz Terajima
(Bank of Canada)
The Welfare Cost of Inflation Revisited: The Role of Financial Innovation and Household Heterogeneity
October 4
13:30-17:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kohei Kamaga
(Sophia University)

Andrew E. Clark
(Paris School of Economics, CNRS)

Conchita D’Ambrosio
(University of Luxembourg)

Claus Vögele
(University of Luxembourg)
Extreme Values, Means, and Inequality Measurement (jointly with Walter Bossert and Conchita D’Ambrosio)

Bechdel at the Box Office: Gender Inequality and Cinema Success in 58 Countries (jointly with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Giorgia Menta)


Economic Insecurity and the Rise of the Right (jointly with Walter Bossert, Andrew E. Clark, and Anthony Lepinteur)


The Measurement of Resilience (jointly with Geir B. Asheim, Walter Bossert, and Conchita D’Ambrosio)


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October 4
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Bin Ni
(Hosei University)
Outward FDI and firm-level employment dynamics in Japan: theory and evidence
October 11
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Jean-Baptiste Michau
(Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Helicopter Drops of Money under Secular Stagnation
November 14
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Youngkyu Song
(Nihon University)
Ryouteki kanwa to bukka yosou ni kan suru kakuritu moderu (in Japanese)
November 15
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Silvio Tai
(Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Selection Bias and Union Premium across Quantiles
November 29
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yichen Shen The Impact of Higher Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Firehorse Year
December 13
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2 Biung-Ghi Ju
(Seoul National University)
Climate Change Justice: Historical Accountability and Equal Treatment (jointly with Min Kim, Suyi Kim, and Juan D. Moreno-Ternero)
December 20
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yasutaka Tominaga
(Hosei University)
The Politics of Labeling Terrorist Organization
January 10
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Koji Shirai
(Kwansei Gakuin University)
Nonparametric analysis of games with monotone best responses (jointly with Natalia Lazzati and John K.-H. Quah)
January 17
13:30-15:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Naser Amanzadeh
(Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology)
Climate Change and Household Income: Evidence from Iran (Joint with Toshi H. Arimura, Mohammad Vesal and Farshad Fatemi)
January 17
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shuhei Kaneko
(Waseda University)
How Does a Natural Disaster Affect the Behavior and Outcomes of Parents and Children in Middle Childhood? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
January 24
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Masato Oikawa
(Waseda University)
Effects of The Health Checkup on Health Outcomes and Behaviors: Heterogeneous Effects Depending on Education
January 31
17:15-18:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Fumihiko Siga
(Kyushu University)
Impact of Real Asset Price Bubble on Household Resource Allocation and Utility over the Life cycle

2018

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 27
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ian Coxhead
(Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in the Developing World: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?
May 18
16:30-19:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Geir B. Asheim
(University of Oslo)

Jonathan Goyette
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Rank-discounting as a resolution to a dilemma in population ethics (coauthor: Stéphane Zuber)

Civil armed conflicts: the impact of the interaction between climate change and agricultural potential
May 25
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hiroki Onuma
(Waseda University)
How much household electricity consumption is actually saved by the replacement with Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)?
June 8
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Walter Bossert
(University of Montreal and CIREQ)
A general definition of positionalist voting rules
(coauthor:Kotaro Suzumura)
June 22
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yushi Kunugi
(Waseda University)
Kasou hyoukahou wo moti i ta kankouti ni okeru muden hasira ka zigyou no kenkyuu—sekai isan de aru tomiokaseisizyou wo zirei to si te (in Japanese)
July 5
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tai-Young Kim
(Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business, South Korea)
The political origin of identity movement: the rise of alma mater university presidents
July 23
16:00-18:10
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Riccardo Rialti
(University of Florence, Italy)

Lala Hu
(Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Social media, luxury fashion marketing and Millennials is it a perfect match? Evidences from several cross-country researches

The role of digital and mobile media in the customer journey in China
July 31
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Akira Sasahara
(University of Idaho, U.S.A.)
Explaining the employment effect of exports: value-added content matters
September 6
11:00-12:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Amy W. Ando
(Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
Willingness-to-Volunteer and Stability of Preferences between Cities: Estimating the Benefits of Stormwater Management(Co-author: Noelwah R. Netusil and Bryan Parthum)
September 28
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yuta Inoue
(Waseda University)
Limited consideration and limited data: revealed preference and observable restrictions
(coauthor: Koji Shirai)
October 12
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay
(Waseda University)
Subjective probabilistic expectations, Indoor air pollution and health: Evidence from cooking fuel use pattern in India
(coauthor: Toshi H. Arimura, Hajime Katayama, Mari Sakudo, Hidefumi Yokoo)
October 26
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Mingchao Sun
(Sophia University)
Nihon no roudou sizyou ni oi te tensyokusya no nettowa-ku no riyou ga tensyoku go no tingin ni ata eru eikyou (in Japanese)
November 9
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yoko Ibuka
(Keio University)
Keiki hendou ga kenkou ni ata eru eikyou—todouhuken no sibou ritu wo moti i ta bunseki (in Japanese)
March 7
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Rong Fu
(Waseda University)
How Did Hospitals Respond to Prospective Payment System under the Japanese Universal Healthcare System? (with Haruko NOGUCHI)
March 27
10:00-19:10
4th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Room 415
Tetsuya Horie
(Sophia University)

Morihiro Yomogida
(Sophia University)

Euston Quah
(Nanyang Technological University)

Masamitsu Kurata
(Sophia University)



Yu Ri Kim
(Sophia Institute for Human Security)


Zadia M. Felciano
(Queens College, The City Univeristy of New York)

Gabriel Iván Fuentes Córdoba
(Tohoku Univeristy)

Kohei Kamaga
(Sophia University)

Yoshio Kamijo
(Kochi University of Technology)
The First Order Impact of the Introduction of Carbon Pricing Policy on Chinese Industries
(jointly with Karen Ohyori)

Border Carbon Adjustments and Foreign Direct Investment with Technology Transfer (jointly with Ma Yan)


Belt and Road Initiative: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Meeting Environmental Obligations


Gendered Impacts of Household and Ambient Air Pollution on Child Health: Evidence from Household and Satellite-based Data in Bangladesh (joitly with Kazushi Takahashi and Akira Hibiki)


Management Practices, Quality Control and Trade: Evidence from SMEs in Vietnam (jointly with Yasuyuki Todo)




Hurricane Maria’s Impact on Puerto Rico’s Labor Market: Plant Closing, Job Losses and Wages




The Long-Term Effect of Civil Conflict on Political Beliefs and Preferences: Evidence from Guatemala



Infinite Population Utilitarian Criteria (jointly with Geir B. Asheim and Stéphane Zuber)


Mother’s Paradox: Proxy Vote for Children Lowers Parents’ Altruism for Future Society



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2017

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 7
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Skerdilajda Zanaj
(University of Luxembourg)  
Commodity taxation and regulatory competition (with Simone Moriconi and Pierre Picard)
April 26
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Ikuho Kochi
(The Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) 
The Impact of Marriage Dissolution on Children’s Education Outcome: The Case of Mexico
April 28
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hiroyuki Seshimo
(Senshu University) 
Preventive Investment and Relief Spending for Natural Disasters: Why Do Rescue Operations Cause Big Spending for Prevention?
May 12
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Viet Ngu Hoang
(Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 
Accounting for Nutrient Pollution in Measuring Agricultural Total Factor Productivity : A Study of OECD Economies
May 27
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Bishnu Kumar Adhikary
(Kobe University) 
Does Equity Holding of the Main Bank Influence Earnings Quality of its Borrowing Firms? Empirical Evidence from Japan
June 23
16:45-18:15
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Mohammad Adbul Malek
(The University of Tokyo) 
Shocks and Brave Farmers: Evidence from a Randomized Agricultural Microfinance Experiment in Bangladesh
June 30
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Chris Mitchell
(Osaka University) 
The Lock-In Effect and the Corporate Payout Policy
July 14
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hide-Fumi Yokoo
(National Institute for Environmental Studies) 
Social Comparison and Preferences toward Pro-Environmental Behavior: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Vietnam
July 28
15:00-16:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Gabriel Iván Fuentes Córdoba
(Tohoku University) 
Indigenous Institutions, Traditional Land Tenure Systems and Economic Performance:Evidence from Western Panama
July 28
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Chun-Fang Chiang
(National Taiwan University) 
What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Experimental Evidence on FTA Diffusion in Japan and Taiwan
September 14
14:00-16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hiroaki Isoyama
(Sophia University)
Asset Pricing Model no kakutyou to kensyou (in Japanese)
October 6
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Susumu Imai
(Hokkaido University) 
Identifi cation and Estimation of Differentiated Products Models using Market Size and Cost Data (with David P. Byrne, Neelam Jain, Vasilis Sarafidis, and Masayuki Hirukawa)
October 27
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Daiju Aiba
(The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, RIETI)
Foreign Currency Borrowing and Risk-Hedging Behaviors: Evidence from a Household Survey in Cambodia
November 24
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kozo Kiyota
(Keio University)
Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exports (with Sabien Dobbelaere)
December 15
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Reo Takaku
(Institute for Health Economics and Policy, IHEP) 
Detecting Waste in Health Care via Hospital Sorting
December 28
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Iwashita Hitoshi
(Kyushu University) 
Kokyaku sikou to kyousou sikou ga ma-kethingu senryaku rituan ryoku ya souzousei ni oyo bosu eikyou (in Japanese)
February 16
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Nicola D. Coniglio
(University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) 
Global interactions and the gender gap in employment: evidence from Vietnam
February 27
13:00-19:40
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yu Ri Kim
(Waseda University)

Takuya Hasebe
(Sophia University)

Kazushi Takahashi
(Sophia University)


Masashige Hamano
(Waseda University)

Kaname Miyagishima
(Aoyama Gakuin University)

Kohei Kamaga
(Sophia University)

Stéphane Zuber
(CNRS(CES, University Paris 1) and Paris School of Economics) 
Are seminars on export promotion effective? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial


Own and cross wage elasticities: the impact of nurse and non-nurse wages on the nurse labor supply

Beyond the SUTVA: The dynamic impacts of management training and subsequent information spillover on agricultural performance in Cote d'lvoire (joint with Yukichi Mano and Keijiro Otsuka)

Adapting to within-country export barriers: Evidence from the Japan 2011 Tsunami (with Wessel Vermeulen)


Fair criteria for social decisions under uncertainty




An axiomatization of the mixed Bentham-Rawls social welfare orderings


Population-adjusted egalitarianism and resource allocation





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March 13
10:00-15:10
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Jon Brodie
(James Cook University, Australia)

Hiroya Yamano
(National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Kiyoshi Satake
(National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Azusa Okagawa
(National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Tetsuya Horie
(Sophia University)
Katsuhito Nohara
(Hokusei Gakuen University) 
Management of Terrestrial Pollution for the Great Barrier Reef: Current Failure versus What Could be Done for Success


General summary of the Impacts of Environmental Change on Marine Environment in Okinawa and Kume Island, Japan


The Impact of Red Soil Runoff on Biodiversity in Kume-Island Okinawa, Japan




Farmers Decisions about Measures for Prevention of Red Soil Runoff and Planting Seasons of Sugarcane




Where to Conduct Treatments for Prevention of Red Soil Runoff: Cost Effective Spatial Allocation of Prevention Measures
Valuation of Coral Reefs by Using Site Choice Model



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March 15
10:00-17:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Corbett Grainger
(University of Wisconsin)

Kimberly Burnett
(University of Hawai’i)

Yasushi Kawabata
(Nagoya City University)

Morihiro Yomogida
(Sophia University)

Eric Bond
(Vanderbilt University) 
Air Pollution and Labor Supply Decisions in China



Economic Valuation of Watershed Conservation Activities in Hawaii



Export Subsidies and Countervailing Duties on Environmental Goods



Border Carbon Adjustments under FDI with Technology Transfer



Destination Based Taxes, Border Adjustments, and Trade

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2016

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 22
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Oleksandr Movshuk
(University of Toyama) 
Child poverty in Japan: comparing the accuracy of alternative measures
May 16
17:00-18:30
1st Floor, Bldg.No.3
Room 123
Brian Copeland
(University of British Columbia) 
Effects of Trade on the Environment: Overview and Recent Developments
May 27
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Makoto Shimizi
(Tokyo International University) 
Hu no risi ritu seisaku (in Japanese)
June 13
17:15-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tsuyoshi Adachi
(Takasaki City University of Economics) 
Strategy-proofness and double implementation with minimax and maximax strategies
June 24
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ryuichiro Ishikawa (Waseda University) Diversity in cognitive ability enlarges mispricing (jointly with Nobuyuki Hanaki, Eizo Akiyama, and Yukihiro Funaki)
July 11
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Satoru Suziki
(University of Technology Sydney)
Task autonomy and incentive
July 22
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hidekazu Anno
(University of Tsukuba) 
Hybrid lung exchange
August 5
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shinya Takamatsu
(World bank)
Three empirical analyses to overcome poverty data gap in developing countries
August 15
15:30-17:00
3rd Floor, Bldg.No.10
Room 301
Hernan D. Seoane 氏(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Sovereign Risk, Private Credit, and Stabilization Policies (with Roberto Pancrazi and Marija Vukotic)
September 30
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ippei Fujiwara
(Keio University) 
Fiscal Forward Guidance (with Yuichiro Waki)
October 24
16:00-17:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ren-Jye Liu
(Tunghai University) 
Taiwan ni okeru mono zukuri kakusin to nittai renkei (in Japanese)
October 28
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kazuyasu Sakamoto
(Gunma University) 
The Effect on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation of the Provisions on Pension Division in Japan's Employee Pension System
November 11
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yasuaki Niitsu
(Ryutsu Keizai University)
Iryou mo-ru manezimento ni tui te no itikousatu (in Japanese)
November 18
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Masayuki Otaki
(The University of Tokyo)
A Theory of Origin of Speculative Bubbles and Public Debt Accumulation
December 2
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Takashi Akahoshi
(Waseda University)
Two concepts of second-best allocations: lexicographic maximality and constrained maximality
December 16
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Toshihiro Okubo
(Keio University) 
Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City before and after the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923(with Tetsuji Okazaki and Eric Strobl)
January 27
15:15-16:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Takeki Sunakawa
(Kobe University) 
Natural Rate of Interest in a Nonlinear DSGE Model(with Yasuo Hirose)
January 27
17:00-18:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hirokazu Ishise
(Osaka University) 
Inflation as a Long-run Source of Comparative Advantage and Welfare Improvement
March 29
13:30-19:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Masashige Hamano (Sophia University)

Kohei Kamaga (Sophia University)

Michiru Kosaka (Sophia University)

Hasebe Takuya (Sophia University)

Francesco Zanetti(The University of Oxford)
International Transmission and Risk Sharing through Product Quality Changes



When Do Utilitarianism and Egalitarianism Agree on Evaluation?: Intersection Approach


The Real Effects of Carry Trade (with Hernan Seoane)


Copula-based Treatment Effect Estimators of Count Data Outcome


State Dependence in Labor Market Fluctuations: Evidence, Theory and Policy Implications

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2015

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 24
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
John Gilbert
(Utah State University, Huntsman School of Business and Hitotsubashi University) 
A New Measure of Economic Distance
May 29
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Taiju Kitano
(Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research) 
Tax Incentives for Fuel Efficient Cars: Evaluation at a Car Variant Level
June 8
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Philippe Martin
(Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) 
Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone
June 26
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Keita Oikawa
(The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) 
Asymmetric International Risks and Net Export Dynamics
July 6
12:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Wessel N. Vermeulen
(OXCARRE. University of Oxford)
The impact of windfalls in a small open economy with heterogeneous firms
July 13
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Koji Shirai
(Kwansei Gakuin University) 
A revealed preference theory of monotone choice and strategic complementarity
July 24
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Akihito Asano
(Sophia University) 
Modelling overfishing in a limited entry fishery
September 25
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Akira Hibiki
(Tohoku University) 
Saisei kanou enerugi- hukyuu sokusinsaku no keizai bunseki—kotei kakaku kaitoriseido to saisei kanou enerugi- riyou wariai kizyun seido no dotira ga nozo masii ka? (in Japanese)
October 23
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shigeharu Okajima
(Waseda University)
Charitable Giving and Social Cooperation, empirical evidence on social cooperation
December 4
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yuki Sato
(University of Lausanne) 
Innovation, Delegation, and Asset Price Swings
December 17
15:15-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ayano Hirose
(School of International Corporate Strategy) 
The Present and The Future of Knowledge Creation Theory
January 22
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tsutomu Miyagawa
(Gakushuin University) 
Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese Product and Firm Level Data

2014

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 21
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Yoshio Kamijo
(Kochi University of Technology)
A theory of strategic auditing: Is a random auditing rule really good?
May 29
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yomogida Morihiro
(Sophia University)
Innovation, Trade, and the Environment in a Model with a Non-Traded Energy Sector
June 26
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Masaya Sakuragawa
(Keio University)
The allocation puzzle, global imbalances, and the boom-bust cycle
September 25
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Eiji Okano
(Nagoya City University)
Inflation Stabilization and Default Risk in a Currency Union
October 31
15:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Konishi Yoshifumi
(Sophia University)
Can Green Car Taxes Restore Efficiency? Evidence from the Japanese New Car Market
November 17
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Ryo Nakajima
(Keio University)
Evaluating Professor's Value-added: Evidence from Professor and Student Matching in Physics
December 18
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Yasushi Asako
(Waseda University)
One-sided Games in a War of Attrition
January 19
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hasebe Takuya
(Sophia University) 
Effect of Homeownership on Unemployment Status and Unemployment Duration
February 19
16:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Pierre M Picard
(University of Luxembourg) 
Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties

2013

Date Venue Speaker Title
May 31
15:50
3rd Floor, Bldg.No.12
Room 301
Takuya Nakaizumi
(Kanto Gakuin University)
Kisei no zizen hyouka to kyousou bunseki no zissai—beikoku no rei wo tyuusin to si te (in Japanese)
May 31
12:45
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Minoru Morita
(Sophia University)
Syou ene ribe-to puroguramu no syukanteki waribiki ritu he no eikyou—hedo nikku kakakuhou ni yoru kaden ekopointo seido no hyouka (in Japanese)
July 31
12:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Noah Smith
(SUNY Stony Brook College of Business)
Finance experiments: A new frontier?
December 4
17:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Jen-Chieh Liu
(Tunghai University)
Nittai bizinesu araiansu no huronthia (in Japanese)
February 13
15:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kazunari Matsushima
(Tokushima University)
Kouteki sien purozyekuto no manezimento to seika (in Japanese)
February 19
13:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Takumi Kongo
(Fukuoka University)
Axiomatization of the away goals rule
February 19
15:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Matsui Kenichiro
(Takushoku University)
Tuuka seido sentaku mondai to ge-mu riron (in Japanese)

2012

Date Venue Speaker Title
July 26
16:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hua Jin
(Hitotsubashi University)
Tyuugoku ni okeru sangaku renkei to sono sangyou sousyutu no yakuwari (in Japanese)
October 31
17:00
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Koji Shirai
(Waseda University)
Testable implication of normal demand and nonparametric demand bounds
November 7
15:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Youngkyu Song
(Sophia University)
Torendo ni tai suru higouriteki na ninsiki to kinyuu sizyou no hi kouritusei (in Japanese)
December 5
15:30
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Suguru Tamura
(The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry)
Gizyutu hyouzyun ni kan suru titeki zaisan sosiki no hatten ga inobe-syon ni ata eru eikyou ni tui te—nihon no denki kikai sangyou no zirei (in Japanese)

2010

Date Venue Speaker Title
June 23
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yuki Kawabata
(House of Representatives)
Sosiki kan renkei no seiritu mekanizumu to seiritu kanousei zoudai ni si suru sindan houhou no teian―komyunike-syon no kinou ni tyakugan si te (in Japanese)
July 21
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tomohiro Hirano
(Financial Services Agency)
Asset Bubbles, Endogenous Growth, and Financial Frictions
July 21
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Jun-ichi Nakamura
(Development Bank of Japan, DBJ)
Why did zombie firms recover in Japan?
October 20
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yosuke Yasuda
(National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
O-kusyon sekkei no sin tenkai : syuuhasuutai to kensaku koukoku o-kusyon (in Japanese)
October 20
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Xavier de Vanssay
(GRIPS, York University, Toronto)
A Canadian Cartel Story: Damage, Punishment, and Market Power
October 27
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shinya Horie
(Ohio State University)
Corruption in procurement auction with public officials who do not commit to practicing corruption
October 27
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Taiju Kitano
(National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Did temporary protection induce technology adoption? A study of the US motorcycle industry
December 1
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tomono Miki
(Rikkyo University)
Kikaku no hukyuu mekanizumu―nihon ni okeru ISO 14001 no zirei wo mo toni (in Japanese)
December 1
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Toru Nakanishi
(The University of Tokyo)
No title

2009

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 7
17:00-
5th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Room 506
Prof. Ronald Jones (University of Rochester) Production Fragmentation and Outsourcing: General Concerns
May 20
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hanae Tamechika
(Sophia University)
Haisyutu ken to CDM zigyou : kyoukyuu dokusen he no nihon no taiou (in Japanese)
May 27
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Prof.Junichi Suzuki
(University of Toronto)
Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry
June 3
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Takuro Miyamoto
(University of British Columbia, Ph.D candidate)
Theoretical analysis of voluntary pollutant reduction program
June 3
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Otsu Keisuke
(Sophia University)
International Business Cycle Accounting: the case of Japan and the US for 1980-2008
June 24
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Takatoshi Tabuchi
(The University of Tokyo)
Beyond the home market effect: market size and specialization in a multi-country world
July 22
17:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yoshihiro Eshima
(Osaka University of Economics)
Tyuusyoukigyou no sonbou : seizon youin no kenkyuu (in Japanese)
October 26
17:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Toshihiro Ichida
(Waseda University)
Trade-offs in Compensating Transfers for a Model of Occupational Choice (Cosponsored by Kankyou to boueki kenkyuu senta)
December 2
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Masanori Yasumoto
(Yokohama National University)
Keitai denwa sangyou ni okeru seitaikei no guro-baru ka : tansaku - katuyou no tame no kigyou kan bungyou nettowa-ku no hattatu to sono inpurike-syon (in Japanese)
December 16
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Fukuju Yamazaki and Taisuke Sadayuki
(Sophia University)
Kubun syoyuu hou no keizai bunseki (in Japanese)
December 16
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hajime Katayama
(The University of Sydney)
Does ISO 14001 Result in Improved Environmental Performance? A Comparison of the USA and Japan" and "Is ISO 14001 a Gateway to More Advanced Voluntary Action? A Case of Green Supply Chain Management
January 6
16:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Mari Sakudo
(Development Bank of Japan, DBJ)
Strategic Interactions between Parents and Daughters: Co-residence, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfers in Japan
January 20
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Daisuke Miyakawa
(Development Bank of Japan, DBJ)
How Does the Stability of Loan Relation Depend on its Duration? Evidence from Japanese Firm- and Bank-Level Data
February 24
16:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tamura Teruyuki
(Sophia University)
ISSP de-ta ni yoru syokumu manzoku do no kokusai hikaku (in Japanese)

2008

Date Venue Speaker Title
April 16
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Mai Konishi
(Sophia University)
Taiki osen ni tai suru kokusai boueki to gizyutu sinpo no eikyou : nihon seizou gyou ni okeru taiki osen bussitu haisyutu ryou henka no zissyou kenkyuu (in Japanese)
April 16
17:10-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Toshihide Arimura
(Sophia University)
The effect of demand-side management energy efficiency programs and other EE policies on electricity demand
May 28
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Nobuo Koida
(Iwate Prefectural University)
Choquet expected utility and other non-expected utility thories
June 18
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Ryo Kambayashi
(Hitotsubashi University)
Nihon no kaiko kisei (in Japanese)
June 18
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room A
Masayuki Keida
(The University of Tokyo)
Dorinku zai kisei kanwa no keizai kouka : POS de-ta wo moti i ta keisoku (in Japanese)
July 16
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shin Imai
(Queen's University at Kingston)
A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model
July 16
17:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Peng Xu
(Hosei University)
US Barbarians at the Japan Gate: Cross Border Hedge Fund Activism
July 23
17:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Nori Tarui
(University of Hawaii System)
Cooperation on climate change mitigation
September 24
14:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Shiro Takeda
(Kanto Gakuen University)
Ondanka taisaku bunseki you CGE moderu (in Japanese)
October 22
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Hiroyuki Seshimo
(Senshu University)
No title
November 26
15:30-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Kojima Hiroyuki
(Teikyo University)
Kyouryoku ge-mu, maiya-son ti, sono kakutyou (in Japanese)
November 26
17:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Yasutaka Niisato
(University of Toyama)
Tulip Bulb Industry in Japan since 1988
December 27
16:00-
11th Floor, Bldg.No.2
Meeting Room B
Tomohiro Hirano
(Financial Services Agency)
Financial Development and Financial Amplification